Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

There's a lot of fear - in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the Trump effect. Bullying is up. A lot of people are feeling, you know, uneasy. A lot of kids are expressing their concerns.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.